GUWAHATI, India, June 10 -- Gauhati High Court issued the following order on May 13:
1. This criminal appeal under Section 374, Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 ['the Code' or 'CrPC', for short] is directed against the Judgment and Order dated 03.11.2017, passed by the Court of learned Sessions Judge, Jorhat in Sessions Case no. 18 [J-J] of 2011, whereby the accused-appellant has been convicted for the offence of murder under Section 302, Indian Penal Code [IPC] and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for life and to pay a fine of Rs. 20,000/-, in default of payment of fine, to undergo rigorous imprisonment for another 6 [six] months.
2. The investigation was set into motion on receipt of a First Information Report [FIR] from the ...